Reply #20: Huh? There's a lot we can do. [View All]

[GliderGuider]

We start off by making sure that the descent is as gradual as possible.
We continue by ensuring that as many people as possible survive it.
We ensure that those who do survive have as much knowledge and understanding as possible, and as many resources as possible, to build whatever comes afterwards.
We try to make sure that our society preserves as many resilient pockets as possible that will carry forward those people with their knowledge and resources.

Accepting that a decline is inevitable doesn't mean giving up. That's an arrogant attitude that assumes we are all that ever could be.

Every complex dynamic system (ecosystem, society, civilization etc.) goes through cycles of growth and expansion coupled with a an increase in complexity and a loss of resilience, followed by a decline coupled with a shedding of complexity and and a regaining of resilience, followed by a turnaround to further growth (though perhaps in a different form). The fact that our decline has become inevitable in no way means that all is lost. Our civilization is not all there is or ever will be.